BTC 5m Polymarket Backtesting Data
Backtest BTC 5m Polymarket Up/Down strategies with historical order book snapshots, spread, depth, and resolution metadata.
BTC 5m Polymarket backtesting data is built for short-horizon strategy research where execution quality matters. Five-minute markets create many repeated episodes, but their short lifecycle makes spread, latency, and available depth especially important.
Why BTC 5m Needs Order Book Data
- Small timing errors can change fill price materially.
- Depth can vanish quickly around fast BTC moves.
- Midpoint-only tests usually overstate scalping performance.
- Resolved outcomes let you score strategies against final settlement.
Useful Backtest Inputs
| Input | Use |
|---|---|
| BTC 5m snapshots | Replay probabilities, spread, and book depth through the market lifecycle. |
| UP and DOWN books | Simulate long and exit logic on both outcome tokens. |
| Resolution metadata | Compute realized payoff and strategy PnL. |
| Reference price context | Compare Polymarket odds to BTC movement. |
BTC 5m Markets at a Glance
| Detail | BTC 5m |
|---|---|
| Contract length | 5 minutes |
| Scheduled markets per day | 288 |
| Markets in a 31-day Pro window | up to 8,928 |
| Order book snapshots per market (300ms) | up to ~1,000 |
| Free plan | Last 50 markets (free, no card) |
| Pro plan ($17/mo) | 31 days of BTC 5m history, extendable to 90 days |
List resolved BTC 5m markets with one request, then pull snapshots for any slug it returns:
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" "https://api.polyhistorical.com/v1/markets?coin=BTC&market_type=5m&resolved=true&limit=20"Counts are upper bounds for a full calendar window; check the market count your query actually returns before drawing conclusions.